Alaska Commercial Company Records
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Alaska Commercial Company Records
Creator:
Alaska Commercial Company
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0234
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1895 - 1897
Abstract: A small collection of business correspondence and records from the Alaska Commercial Company, a San Francisco trading firm
concerned with the Alaskan fur trade in the late 19th century.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a small body of business correspondence and records, including 34 letters written from early March
to 12 October 1897 between agents Otto W. Carlson at Unga, R. T. Lying and James M. Wilson at St. Michael, and company representatives
N. Gray and Rudolph Neumann at Unalaska. The letters contain orders for merchandise, accounts of fur pelts shipped, and general
account information. Also included are 28 business documents, such as invoices, advice of drafts lists, inventories, and supply
arrivals related to the Apollo Consolidated Mining Company.
Historical Background
Alaska Commercial Company was a San Francisco firm which purchased the assets of the Russian-American Co. in 1867. The company
supported the Alaskan fur trade by providing steamship transportation, general merchandising, and other commercial and financial
services. The company had offices at Unalaska on Unalaska Island, at Unga on Unga Island, and at St. Michael on the west coast
of Alaska in the Norton Sound.
Publication Rights
Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without
prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Preferred Citation
Alaska Commercial Company Records, MSS 234. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Not Available
Digital Content
This collection has been digitized.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Sources
Neumann, Rudolph
Wilson, James M.
Gray, N.
Lying, R. T.
Carlson, Otto W.
Box 1, Folder 1-7
Correspondence
1897 March-October
Business correspondence: 1897 March
Business correspondence: 1897 April
Business correspondence: 1897 May
Business correspondence: 1897 June-July
Business correspondence: 1897 August
Business correspondence: 1897 September
Business correspondence: 1897 October
General note
34 items (54 p.). Mostly holograph, but some typescript.
Box 1, Folder 8
List of goods put onboard the schooner
Challenge in St. Michael for trip to Unalaska
1895 or 1896 August 1
List of goods put onboard the schooner Challenge in St. Michael for trip to Unalaska: 1895 or 1896 August 1
Box 1, Folder 9
Arrivals and departures of vessels, Port Unga, Alaska
1896
Arrivals and departures of vessels, Port Unga, Alaska: 1896
Box 1, Folder 10
Requisitions and shipments
ca. 1897
Requisitions and shipments: circa 1897
Box 1, Folder 11
Supply invoice from Apollo Consolidated Mining Co. to Alaska Commercial Company
1897 February 28
Supply invoice from Apollo Consolidated Mining Company: 1897 February 28
Box 1, Folder 12-18
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents
1897 March-October
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 March
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 May
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 June
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 July
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 August
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 September
Supply invoices and bookkeeping documents: 1897 October
